Doris Matsui

Doris Matsui (25 September 1944-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 5) from 2005 to 2013, succeeding Bob Matsui and preceding Mike Thompson, and from CA 6 from 2013, succeeding Lynn Woolsey.

Biography
Doris Okada was born in Poston, Arizona on 25 September 1944, and she grew up in Dinuba, California. There, she met her husband, Bob Matsui, and she was a housewife and socialite as her husband advanced in the political arena. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Matsui became a Democratic Party lobbyist, and she replaced her husband in the US House of Representatives after his death in 2005. Matsui represented Sacramento, and she supported progressive taxation, the labor movement, social security, Obamacare, the distribution of clean and sterile syringes to reduce the spread of HIV and Hepatitis, the right to choose, LGBT rights, energy independence, environmentalism, and gun control.